I read The Stolen Throne novel quite a while back, as well as The Calling, and I will never understand why people are so fond of epilogues like this. Mother Ailis is... Loghain's sort of stepmom? And she's telling all this to a 12 year old Cailan? I just feel that there are some questions that need to be answered here, not least of all being "how does she know all of this?"

I also don't quite understand why people insist that they like Loghain better after reading The Stolen Throne. I did not feel like I learned anything new about him (but then I have recruited him and made a point to get to know him so I guess...) and he was an angry boy. I much prefer old grumpy pants of DA games an The Calling.

@Norgrath: Correction: Everyone who is not specifically mentioned not to be a bard IS a bard. At least in Orlais. Fact.

@Guest: Oh I definitely see the logic behind tying it up like that, it's just that epilogues that implies that the story has been told by person X to person Y (especially if Y is very young) tend to rub me the wrong way. And lead to a lot of questions. Personally I would have opted for Loghain telling the story, or monologuing, but that might also be my poorly hidden favoritism showing.